But its not only the media that cannot bring themselves to identify who murdered a 60 year old woman and a police officer who was recently married.

The EU condemned what happened, but other than identifying that it happened in Jerusalem, they could not bring themselves to say that it was not just a terrorist attack, but a Palestinian terrorist attack.

@EUinIsrael Appreciate the condemnation. But why not mention whom it was carried out by? Was member of Palestinian Hamas ICYMI.

Even Dan Shapiro, the US Ambassador to Israel, could not tell you who the terrorist was -- in fact, unlike in the other tweets above, Shapiro did not even make it clear that the attack happened in Jerusalem.

Absolutely no justification 4 the taking of innocent lives. We also condemn the statements glorifying this reprehensible & cowardly attack.

Also, like The Independent, Shapiro refers to the victims of the terrorist as being "killed" instead of being "murdered". The word "kill" is generic and just refers to causing a death. On the other hand, Wikipedia defines "murder" as "the unlawful killing of another human being without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought." But to be fair, the media doesn't refer to terrorism in general as murder either. Is it because of the value judgement implicit in the word?

Maybe the problem is not so much an issue of how they feel about the Palestinian Arabs than of how they feel about Israel, whom many seem to think should just roll over and give the Arabs whatever they want -- as if that will solve most (if not all) of the world's problems.

In Harry Potter and The Sorceror's Stone, Dumbledore advises: “Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”

Even assuming that it is not fear preventing the identification of the terrorists as Palestinians, the failure to use the proper name for Palestinian terrorism only increases the acceptance of Palestinian -- and by extension -- other forms of Islamist terrorism as well.

Dumbledore - A word to the wise

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